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The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress was created in 1976 by the U.S. Congress to "preserve and present" American folklife through programs of research, documentation, archival preservation, reference service, live performance, exhibition, publication, and training.

The Breath of Life Institute works to help Native Americans involved in language revitalization find and make use of materials on their languages that are in the National Anthropological Archives and Library of Congress.

City Lore documents, presents, and advocates for grassroots cultures to ensure their living legacy in stories, histories, places, and traditions.

Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP), formed in 1993, is a subcommittee of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA). It works to encourages the study and documentation of endangered languages and makes technical assistance available to language communities seeking to maintain their languages as living means of communication, or to document them for future generations.

The Documenting Endangered Languages (DEL) funding partnership between the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) supports projects to develop and advance knowledge concerning endangered human languages.

Endangered Alphabets Project, which consists of an exhibition of carvings and a book, is the first-ever attempt to bring attention to the issue that at least a third of the world’s remaining alphabets are endangered.

The Genographic Legacy Fund (GLF) works around the globe with indigenous communities, supporting projects and raising awareness about the cultural challenges and pressures faced by indigenous and traditional peoples.

The Indigenous Language Institute provides vital language related services to Native communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom, and values are passed on to future generations in their original languages.

Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages documents, preserves, and revitalizes endangered languages worldwide through linguist-aided, community-driven multi-media language documentation projects and the development of talking dictionaries.

National Geographic Society’s Enduring Voices is a joint project with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages that documents languages and prevents their extinction by identifying crucial areas where languages are endangered.

OurLanguage.org supports people who are involved in revitalization of Native North American languages.

Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution, the national museum of the United States. They are dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound.

Smithsonian Recovering Voices Initiative, led by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in partnership with National Museum of the American Indian and Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, promotes the documentation and revitalization of the world’s endangered languages through research, collaboration, and resources.

International Mother Language Day
UNESCO launched International Mother Language Day (IMLD) to promote linguistic diversity and multilingual education and to inspire greater awareness of the importance of mother tongue education. It is observed throughout the world each year on February 21.

Local Content on the Internet is the subject of a study prepared by UNESCO, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and The Internet Society (ISOC) that recognizes the Internet’s crucial role in enhancing the free flow of information and ideas throughout the world and analyzes whether the promotion of local content creation and the development of local Internet infrastructure has an impact on the access price of the Internet for local users.

World Oral Literature Project, co-located at the University of Cambridge and Yale, “collaborates with local communities to document their own oral narratives, and aspires to become a permanent centre for the appreciation and preservation of oral literature.”